Fear Collection

Zhuang Zheng, who was leading the way in front, turned around when he heard the sound, and saw that he was pulling his legs out without serious problems, so he said loudly: "Follow me closely, walk the path I walked, and don't deviate from the route."

"I don't know how long the fallen leaves here have been piled up. It looks flat on the surface, but it's actually empty inside. It's filled with water after it rained just now. Stepping into it with one foot is similar to stepping into a swamp. It's likely that the whole body Sink in." Said Wang Hanchi next to him.

"Okay, okay." He Yingwei pulled out his leg, and the pants on that calf were soaked, he couldn't help cursing, "Grass, if it wasn't for 'His', I might never come to the virgin forest for the rest of my life. crime."

"Who isn't? I won't come here in my next life." Zhao Wu echoed, looked around, picked a more suitable branch, cut it off and threw it to He Yingwei as a road-finding stick, "Let's make do."

If at the beginning they thought that it might take less than seven days to go deep into the primeval forest and enter the temple in Snake Valley, then this afternoon's march can be said to have poured cold water on the heads of those who grew up in cities or villages. .

It's just too difficult.

This virgin forest, perhaps called a rainforest, does not know how long it has existed.

Countless tall broad-leaved trees are desperately growing upwards to compete for the precious sunlight as much as possible. The unfolded canopy covers the sky and the sun. Walking in the forest, you can hardly see the sky and the sun. Only bunches of sunlight falling from the gaps pass through the forest. The Tyndall effect is produced when the mist diffuses inside, forming many beams of light.

And the tall trunks of the trees are covered with all kinds of vines, and there are all kinds of strange plants growing on the ground. On the dark and humid ground and in the corners of the forest, you can see all kinds of saprophytic organisms, almost perfecting the entire space. Take advantage of it.

Counting the 13 Snake Witches in their group, they are superfluous for this forest.

When they first started marching in the afternoon, they were quite confident, but Xie Jinxi began to feel that when he first set off, he really didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth.

I heard from the translator that the rainy season had just started in this forest, and the weather was stuffy and hot when we set off in the afternoon. After walking for a while, one of the newcomers cursed and tried to take off his long-sleeved jacket, but Wang Hanchi pushed him back.

"Do you know how rich species are in this rainforest? Where you can see and where you can't see, there are creatures you can't imagine everywhere. Spiders, centipedes, poisonous mosquitoes, leeches, bees... Not to mention anything else, If you dare to take off your coat, within half an hour your arms will be covered with bags."

"Let me tell you, we don't have serum, and other medicines are limited. If you are bitten by a poisonous insect, it's okay if it's not very poisonous. If it's too poisonous, you may not be able to save your life if you cut off your arm on the spot. And the injury will be serious. If you slow down your speed, you may not be able to reach the Snake Valley within seven days, and you will die under the curse if you don’t die in the rainforest.”

The newcomer was turned blue by Wang Hanchi's words, and Zhuang Zheng, who was opening the way ahead, stopped at this moment and said, "Take it up for a while, what he said is right, fasten the trouser legs, and check each other for bugs. Now It's too hot, drink water in time to replenish water."

Xie Jinxi put down the bag on his back to salute, unscrewed the water bottle and took two sips, then found a clean cloth towel from his backpack and wiped the sweat on his face and neck.These two places can be wiped, but his back is almost soaked.

The forest had just finished raining, sweat and moisture were stuffed inside by the fabric, and the humidity was so high that Xie Jinxi felt his skin itchy.

Suffering, too much suffering, this is still the first afternoon, looking at his watch, he found that they had only walked intermittently for less than two hours, and he felt that his physical strength had been exhausted.

Xie Jinxi couldn't help looking at Zhuang Zheng who was leading the way. Even though he was so tired after following the team, Zhuang Zheng had to keep chopping the plants blocking the way with a knife, but Zhuang Zheng looked in much better condition than him at this moment.

Xie Jinxi couldn't help but smile wryly, alas, learning is more of mental work, although Xie Jinxi has simple fitness, but he doesn't like sports, so his physical strength is average, but because he is young, he is in better condition than the middle-aged He Yingwei.

But where is this? Xie Jinxi looked at the endless forest in front of him, and then looked back at the three women in the team with ugly faces. He was full of doubts.

They haven't even seen Snake Valley yet, and they don't know what dangers are lurking in this world. They are already in such a mess. Can they still go to Snake Valley?

Xie Jinxi's eyes flicked across everyone one by one, and finally fixed on the snake witch.

Each of these taskers was sweating and panting, but the Snake Witch was still the same as when he set off.The black robe he was wrapped in was wet from the moisture in the forest, but Xie Jinxi didn't hear his breathing rhythm change, he didn't seem tired at all.

Is he... is he human?

"Damn this place!" Zhao Wu sat on the root system of a tree exposed on the ground and cursed after drinking a mouthful of water.

Among the newlyweds over there, a young couple sat on a piece of dead wood with their backpacks under their buttocks. The woman among them was drinking water while looking at a layer of yellow flowers blooming on the other end of the tree trunk.

"It's pretty," she said.

The boyfriend gave a wry smile and said, "Pretty is beautiful, but you'd better not lean over to see it."

"Ah?" People are like this. If others don't tell her, she might not lean over to look. When her boyfriend mentions it, she can't help but stand up and move over to take a look. Then she immediately stepped back several steps screaming.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

This layer of small yellow flowers blooming on the dead wood looks nothing from a distance, but when you look closer, you find that there are many small black flying insects densely packed in the center of the flower.

The moment she leaned over, the flying insects were so stimulated that they "buzzed" and flew up, hovering in mid-air like a thin black blanket.When she retreated, she fell back on the flower again.

She turned around to look at the boyfriend and said angrily, "How dare you drag me to sit here after seeing it?"

The boyfriend patted the backpack under his buttocks and said, "No way, I can't sit on the ground. It's okay to stay away. Come back and sit, I have to go in a while."

Everyone watched the movement on his side, Zhao Wu sneered and raised his head to drink water again, when the sound of branches suddenly sounded.

"Get out of the way!" Zhuang Zheng, who reacted the fastest, roared.

Zhao Wu, who was drinking water with his head up, pounced forward without hesitation, and quickly rolled a few times away from the position just now, at the cost of spilling the water in the kettle all over the floor.

Also responding were Wang Hanchi and He Yingwei, who rushed out in the opposite direction of the sound almost at the same time.

When the others, including Xie Jinxi, didn't react, a huge tree branch broke countless branches along the way and fell down violently.

The place where the branch fell was where Zhao Wu was sitting at that time. If he didn't dodge or dodge not in time, he would either be killed directly or suffer a concussion.

"Fuck it!" A foul word came, but it wasn't Zhao Wu who said it, but one of the newcomers.

He was startled and reflexively took two steps back just now, but he tripped over something and fell among the dead branches and leaves.

He cursed because when he turned his head to see what had tripped him, he saw the snake snapping at his shoe.

The newcomer reacted fairly quickly and reflexively withdrew his feet, then scrambled and crawled away from the snake.

"A viper." Wang Hanchi, who was still in shock, looked at the snake, "Although I don't know what kind of viper it is, but he saved his life."

The characteristics of pit vipers are very obvious, and this species is also a highly venomous snake.

The viper group was among the dead branches and leaves. They were so close but no one noticed it.

The newcomer was even more frightened and ran to Zhuang Zheng's place, muttering: "I didn't see it, I didn't see it, I stepped on it when I stepped back, grass."

Zhuang Zheng turned his head to look at him, and only said, "Calm down."

There was no point in trying to comfort him with nonsense.

Over there, Wang Hanchi looked up at the place where the branches fell just now, and said: "The forest is full of dangers, and rotten branches often fall. And some trees that look tall are actually hollowed out inside and may fall down at any time." Come down, getting hit is no joke."

Ji Chuanmo nodded, and said, "Everyone raise your spirits, keep your eyes open and your ears listening to all directions, be careful."

Then Ji Chuanmo looked at Wang Hanchi with an inquiring gaze, and said, "That's right, you really know a lot."

Wang Hanchi smiled and said: "I am not talented, I am interested in everything, so I know a lot of messy things, but I am not good at it. It is far inferior to this little brother with a doctor in our team."

As he said that, Wang Hanchi looked at Xie Jinxi, and looked at him with a kind of eyes that don't pretend, I can see that you are not simple.

Xie Jinxi who was mentioned suddenly was a little inexplicable, Wang Hanchi seemed to notice that he was observing all the taskers along the way.

Ah, this...

In fact, Xie Jinxi has been instinctively paying attention to the taskers because of Lin Wen in the previous world, and is on guard against their unreasonable actions, especially the Snake Witch. He has been focusing on the Snake Witch.

But I didn't expect his behavior, it seems that Wang Hanchi misunderstood him as pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?

Xie Jinxi did not speak, and looked at Wang Hanchi frankly, with a calm and natural look.

"Okay, let's hurry up, who knows if that snake will crawl over." Zhao Wu walked to Zhuang Zheng with a sullen face, "Let me open the way."

Zhuang Zheng didn't force it, and decisively retreated to the second line to let Zhao Wu open the way, and he was at the side to assist.

The long and arduous journey continued, and towards evening, the forest quickly darkened, and it became colder and colder.

The sweat from exercising was blown by the cold wind, making it even more uncomfortable.

This reminded Xie Jinxi of what his father said, which is the so-called "earth air is still cold".

Every spring when the sun is good, the temperature will be very hot, but that is just the atmosphere heating up, the land has not absorbed enough heat, and the whole land is cold.

When the sun disappears, the cold air contained in the earth rises, and the temperature drops rapidly.

That is what his father said, "the earth's air is still cold." Xie Jinxi felt that there was some scientific basis for it, but it seemed metaphysical when he said it.

This forest is probably in this state now.

Xie Jinxi recalled that the translator said that the rainy season came early this year, the river washed away the snake cave and awakened the dormant snakes, so the previous "archaeological expedition team" was in danger.

Although the temperature is high at noon in the forest, the snakes buried in the underground snake cave are actually at the end of hibernation. The temperature in the soil is not high enough, and it is far from the temperature when the snakes can be active.